How to increase Seasonal Batting Averages? BB?

[twinsfan34]

I am noticing through simming seasons that most of the batting average champs are in the .308 to .318 range with about 4-8 guys per league hitting at .300 or over.

Is there a way to increase these? Ideally I'd like to see the batting average leader in each league closer to .340+.

Hits are also low, lucky to see a 200 hit guy every other season.

Do sliders affect the simulations much? If so, what sliders would you think would affect this?

Batter Walks would be another category that seem rather low, with the league winner usually around 85-90 (Votto, Fielder, Choo).

Strikeouts are probably a bit high with as many as 20 pitchers per league getting 200+ Ks and often 6-8 over 250.

Do you find changing ratings across the board or would sliders work just as well?

(wish MLB had a position sorter where you could edit players - be easier to say, Verlander has best curveball and then adjust each pitcher accordingly type of scenario)

Would appreciate any observations and changes you have made in your own seasons that seem to affect these numbers in the desired direction. Thanks.

[twinsfan34]

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One more thing...

On the pitching strikeouts. Both in simulation and in games. How do you get lots of K's (higher K rate) with relievers (e.g. Jansen, Kimbrel, Chapman, Holland, etc)?

I find it hard to get or see a few RP guys barely over 9-10K per 9 IP. While not uncommon to see starters can be at that 230 IP and 275k threshold (9-10K per 9 IP)....might see as many as 8-10 starting pitchers with a K rate over over 1 per IP.

[Ed21]

Re: How to increase Seasonal Batting Averages? BB?

To my knowledge sliders have no impact on sim stats, they are purely for gameplay.

Individual player ratings are what affects the sim stats. The ratings that would adjust batting average and walks when simming in franchise would be contact left and right (for average) and discipline for walks, probably coupled with how dangerous the hitter is overall, because even if a .220 hitter had a high discipline rating, pitchers wouldn't be as afraid to walk him.

As for the amount of strikeouts, that would be determined by the K/9 rating. Players like Kimbrel, Jansen, Darvish etc. should all have K/9 ratings of 90 plus. I feel like a pitcher who has a 9K per 9 innings should probably have a rating between 75-80, and then you have the guys like Fernandez, Darvish and Strasburg who should be pushing 85-90 in K/9.

Sliders have nothing to do with sim stats.

[aldogabd]

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i agree with the OP, these issues really bother me as well. i have a hard time getting kimbrel to strike out 1 per inning in my franchise, playing games or simming, yet hes near 2/ip in real life.

[Threeebs]

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I'd say that .340 is a much harder number to reach, and see now a days but you're right BA is low but apparently it's more to due with a BABIP problem within the game.

As for the K/9 rates, they're actually showing below league average. The reason you're seeing a number of players with very high K totals is because pitchers are pitching into games far to deep compared to league average as well. More innings= more strike outs.

It seems more likely that pitcher's K/9 algorithm is rated lower, most likely due to the fact that they changed the range for the algorithms in this year's game. This is why you're seeing Kimbrel with a lower K/9 rate possibly as well...

[CaseIH]

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i agree with the OP, these issues really bother me as well. i have a hard time getting kimbrel to strike out 1 per inning in my franchise, playing games or simming, yet hes near 2/ip in real life.

Yeah this has always bugged me, I cant come close to resembling what Chapman does with K's. Last year I tried all kinds of things editing to get it right. Funny thing is I have other pitchers that arent near as good at K's yet I do begtter with them.

[twinsfan34]

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Aldo... and Case...

you guys hit the nail on the head - actually was trying to get a dominant closer in my leagues, starting with Kimbrel and Chapman. Then I tried Jansen. No luck.

I'm finding I'm having more success with random relievers as well, but having to go 2-3 innings to try to get the 3-5 strikeouts for better K/9 rates.

I tried boosting ratings to where those guys are just tough to hit - and when I play the CPU...that's just it. I strike out for 2 of the 3 outs every time.

But I can't get the CPU to strikeout like that...and sims obviously those guys are lucky to get 55 K's in 55 IP in a season.

[HopiDesertPriest]

Re: How to increase Seasonal Batting Averages? BB?

to increase individual batting avg. -- lower cpu pitcher stamina to 3/3 and sim games from the home screen.

[HopiDesertPriest]

Re: How to increase Seasonal Batting Averages? BB?

or add + 2 to all hitters R/L contact and Clutch ratings.

[CaseIH]

Re: How to increase Seasonal Batting Averages? BB?

to increase individual batting avg. -- lower cpu pitcher stamina to 3/3 and sim games from the home screen.

Pitching stamina has always been to high for starters, and why we see to many complete games by starters. What I do besides re-editing the roster, is the stamina sliders when I sim the other games in my franchise I lower the starting pitching slider down 2-3 clicks and raise hook slider to 6, I also lower reliver stamina slider too 2 and keep it there for games played too. That has helped in the past since they started making those sliders effect simmed games.

[B1ackswords]

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Yea playing RTTS so far it looks like its going back to the 1960s and 70s with pitching dominance. Had a game just yesterday where James McDonald threw a CG 2 run performance throwing 134 pitches. I can go ahead and tell you the chances of that happening today are about 1%. Also, somebody earlier posted about BABIP and that has taken a great dive from what I have seen. Dont know how you would fix that though.

[drhzhen]

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To my knowledge sliders have no impact on sim stats, they are purely for gameplay.

[Bobhead]

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How many seasons have you simmed?

[twinsfan34]

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yeah, I've tinkered with the sliders - haven't noticed much affect in simming, however, they are very affective for gameplay.

I have also noticed SBs to be WAY down this year...past years the complain was too high and rightly so - no guys in MLB would match the 5-8 guys with 70+ SB.

But in 2014...despite jacking Dee Gorgon, Billy Hamilton, and a few others SB ratings (aggressiveness and ability) to 99's...they're lucky to get 55-65 SB whereas one or both are likely to get 80+ this year.

[CaseIH]

Re: How to increase Seasonal Batting Averages? BB?

yeah, I've tinkered with the sliders - haven't noticed much affect in simming, however, they are very affective for gameplay.

I have also noticed SBs to be WAY down this year...past years the complain was too high and rightly so - no guys in MLB would match the 5-8 guys with 70+ SB.

But in 2014...despite jacking Dee Gorgon, Billy Hamilton, and a few others SB ratings (aggressiveness and ability) to 99's...they're lucky to get 55-65 SB whereas one or both are likely to get 80+ this year.

Pitching sliders along with the injury slider effect simmed games, but the rest to my knowledge dont. I know for sure the pitchers sliders effect simmed game because they made it that way back in 11, after 10 had a disaster with relievers appearing in over 120 games, so Knight got them to change that for 11.

It would be nice if all the sliders effected simmed games, that way you could possibly get stats more realistic. Last year with the right edits, and sliders you could get 13 stats pretty close to real life, but it took a lot of editing with them having offenses play like they were jacked up on Roids What I have seen this year is stats are pretty close to accurate with pitching having a slight edge of of the box, which I would prefer it to lean more that way than the other. Definitely still needs some tweaking to get accurate though, but for me it wont matter if they dont fix franchise mode issues, cause of thats not patched the game is unplayable for me, so it really wont matter. I usually tinker and tinker with edits until I get the sim stats right or close, cause IM very OCD about those things, so I did get 13 right last year with a ton of work editing.